Douglas Hamilton Johnson is an American scholar who lives in Britain who specializes in the history of North East Africa, Sudan and the Southern Sudan.
Johnson worked to support the 2003 SudanComprehensive Peace Agreement negotiations over the Three Areas (Abyei, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile). In 2005 he was a member of the Abyei Boundary Commission, chaired by Donald K. Petterson, with the task of settling the borders of Abyei, a district disputed between the Sudan and the newly self-governing South Sudan, and was one of the five independent experts tasked with presenting the Commission's final report.[1]
Since then, he has advised the Government of South Sudan on North-South boundary issues.[2]
Personal lifeedit
In 1977, Johnson married Wendy James, a British anthropologist and academic. Together, they have had two children: one son and one daughter.[3]
Selected publicationsedit
South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation, Ohio University Press (Ohio Short Histories of Africa series), 2016, ISBN978-0-8214-2242-7
“Decolonizing the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories and National Development”, in Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present, (Mark Duffield & Vernon Hewitt, eds), Woodbrige & Rochester NY: James Currey, 2009, ISBN978-1-84701-011-7
“Tribe or Nationality? The Sudanese Diaspora and the Kenyan Nubis”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 112–31, 2009
“Political Intelligence, Colonial Ethnography and Analytical Anthropology in the Sudan”, Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge (Helen Tilley & Robert Gordon, eds), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 ISBN978-0-7190-6239-1
“Darfur: Peace, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in Sudan”, in Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa (Preben Kaarsholm, ed), Oxford: James Currey, 2006, ISBN978-0-85255-894-2
"The Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the Problem of Factionalism" in African Guerrillas (Christopher Clapham, ed). Oxford: James Currey, 1998, ISBN978-0-85255-815-7
Joanna Macrae, Mark Bradbury, Susanne Jaspars, Douglas Johnson & Mark Duffield, "Conflict, the Continuum and Chronic Emergencies: A Critical Analysis of the Scope for Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Planning in Sudan" in Disasters, Volume 21 Issue 3, Pages 223 - 243, September 1997
Karim, Ataul, Mark Duffield, Susanne Jaspars, Aldo Benini, Joanna Macrae, Mark Bradbury, Douglas Johnson & George Larbi. Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS): a review (Geneva: Department of Humanitarian Affairs, 1996)
Wendy James, Gerd Baumann & Douglas Johnson, eds, Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883, London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996, ISBN0-904180-34-4
Editor, C.A. Willis, The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on Peoples and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1931, Oriental and African Archives 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1995, ISBN978-0-19-726146-0
David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson, eds, Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History, London: James Currey, 1995, ISBN978-0-85255-718-1
Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, ISBN978-0-19-823367-1
Editor, Governing the Nuer: Documents by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography, 1922-1931, Oxford: JASO, 1993, ISBN1-870047-45-1
"Salim Wilson: The Black Evangelist of the North", Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume 21, Number 1, pp. 26–41, 1991
"Criminal Secrecy: The Case of the Zande 'Secret Societies'" in Past & Present, Volume 130, Number 1, pp. 170–200, 1991
“Political Ecology in the Upper Nile: The Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral ‘Common Economy’”, Journal of African History, Volume 30, Number 3, pp. 463-86, 1989
Douglas H. Johnson & David M. Anderson, eds, The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History, London: Lester Crook Academic Publishing, 1988, ISBN1-870915-00-3
Wendy James & Douglas H. Johnson, eds, Vernacular Christianity: Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion, Oxford: JASO, 1988, ISBN1-870047-30-3
"Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century" in Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour (Léonie J. Archer, ed), London: Routledge, 1988 ISBN0-415-00203-6
“On the Nilotic Frontier: Imperial Ethiopia in the Southern Sudan, 1898-1936”, in The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology (D. Donham & Wendy James, eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 (paperback Oxford: James Currey, 2002 ISBN978-0-85255-794-5)
“The Death of Gordon: a Victorian Myth”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 285–310, 1982
“Tribal Boundaries and Border Wars: Nuer-Dinka Relations in the Sobat and Zaraf Valleys, c. 1860-1976”, Journal of African History, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 183–203, 1982
"Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer, and the Sudan Political Service" in African Affairs, Volume 81, Number 323, pp. 231–246, 1982
"History and Prophecy among the Nuer of the Southern Sudan", PhD thesis, UCLA, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1980
^"JAMES, Prof. Wendy Rosalind, (Mrs D. H. Johnson)". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
External linksedit
"SUDAN: Interview with Douglas Johnson, expert on the Abyei Boundary Commission", IRIN, 29 May 2006
"Douglas Johnson - Sudan's Civil Wars", hosted by Google Video, distributed by understandingsudan.org, 2006
October 28, 2023
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For other people named Douglas Johnson see Douglas Johnson disambiguation Douglas Hamilton Johnson is an American scholar who lives in Britain who specializes in the history of North East Africa Sudan and the Southern Sudan Contents 1 Work in the Sudan 2 Personal life 3 Selected publications 4 References 5 External linksWork in the Sudan editJohnson worked to support the 2003 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement negotiations over the Three Areas Abyei Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile In 2005 he was a member of the Abyei Boundary Commission chaired by Donald K Petterson with the task of settling the borders of Abyei a district disputed between the Sudan and the newly self governing South Sudan and was one of the five independent experts tasked with presenting the Commission s final report 1 Since then he has advised the Government of South Sudan on North South boundary issues 2 Personal life editIn 1977 Johnson married Wendy James a British anthropologist and academic Together they have had two children one son and one daughter 3 Selected publications editSouth Sudan A New History for a New Nation Ohio University Press Ohio Short Histories of Africa series 2016 ISBN 978 0 8214 2242 7 Decolonizing the Borders in Sudan Ethnic Territories and National Development in Empire Development and Colonialism The Past in the Present Mark Duffield amp Vernon Hewitt eds Woodbrige amp Rochester NY James Currey 2009 ISBN 978 1 84701 011 7 Tribe or Nationality The Sudanese Diaspora and the Kenyan Nubis Journal of Eastern African Studies Volume 3 Number 1 pp 112 31 2009 Political Intelligence Colonial Ethnography and Analytical Anthropology in the Sudan Ordering Africa Anthropology European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge Helen Tilley amp Robert Gordon eds Manchester Manchester University Press 2007 ISBN 978 0 7190 6239 1 Darfur Peace Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in Sudan in Violence Political Culture amp Development in Africa Preben Kaarsholm ed Oxford James Currey 2006 ISBN 978 0 85255 894 2 The Root Causes of Sudan s Civil Wars James Currey Oxford 2003 ISBN 978 0 85255 392 3 Editor Series B Volume 5 Sudan in British Documents on the End of Empire 1998 Part I 1942 1950 ISBN 0 11 290563 3 Part II 1951 1956 ISBN 0 11 290564 1 The Sudan People s Liberation Army and the Problem of Factionalism in African Guerrillas Christopher Clapham ed Oxford James Currey 1998 ISBN 978 0 85255 815 7 Joanna Macrae Mark Bradbury Susanne Jaspars Douglas Johnson amp Mark Duffield Conflict the Continuum and Chronic Emergencies A Critical Analysis of the Scope for Linking Relief Rehabilitation and Development Planning in Sudan in Disasters Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 223 243 September 1997 Karim Ataul Mark Duffield Susanne Jaspars Aldo Benini Joanna Macrae Mark Bradbury Douglas Johnson amp George Larbi Operation Lifeline Sudan OLS a review Geneva Department of Humanitarian Affairs 1996 Wendy James Gerd Baumann amp Douglas Johnson eds Juan Maria Schuver s Travels in North East Africa 1880 1883 London The Hakluyt Society 1996 ISBN 0 904180 34 4 Editor C A Willis The Upper Nile Province Handbook A Report on Peoples and Government in the Southern Sudan 1931 Oriental and African Archives 3 Oxford Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1995 ISBN 978 0 19 726146 0 David M Anderson amp Douglas H Johnson eds Revealing Prophets Prophecy in Eastern African History London James Currey 1995 ISBN 978 0 85255 718 1 Nuer Prophets A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Oxford Clarendon Press 1994 ISBN 978 0 19 823367 1 Editor Governing the Nuer Documents by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography 1922 1931 Oxford JASO 1993 ISBN 1 870047 45 1 Salim Wilson The Black Evangelist of the North Journal of Religion in Africa Volume 21 Number 1 pp 26 41 1991 Criminal Secrecy The Case of the Zande Secret Societies in Past amp Present Volume 130 Number 1 pp 170 200 1991 Political Ecology in the Upper Nile The Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral Common Economy Journal of African History Volume 30 Number 3 pp 463 86 1989 Douglas H Johnson amp David M Anderson eds The Ecology of Survival Case Studies from Northeast African History London Lester Crook Academic Publishing 1988 ISBN 1 870915 00 3 Wendy James amp Douglas H Johnson eds Vernacular Christianity Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion Oxford JASO 1988 ISBN 1 870047 30 3 Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century in Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour Leonie J Archer ed London Routledge 1988 ISBN 0 415 00203 6 On the Nilotic Frontier Imperial Ethiopia in the Southern Sudan 1898 1936 in The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia Essays in History and Social Anthropology D Donham amp Wendy James eds Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1986 paperback Oxford James Currey 2002 ISBN 978 0 85255 794 5 The Death of Gordon a Victorian Myth Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Volume 10 Number 2 pp 285 310 1982 Tribal Boundaries and Border Wars Nuer Dinka Relations in the Sobat and Zaraf Valleys c 1860 1976 Journal of African History Volume 23 Number 2 pp 183 203 1982 Evans Pritchard The Nuer and the Sudan Political Service in African Affairs Volume 81 Number 323 pp 231 246 1982 History and Prophecy among the Nuer of the Southern Sudan PhD thesis UCLA University Microfilms International Ann Arbor Mich 1980References edit Dorina Bekoe Kelly Campbell Nicholas Howenstein Resolving the Boundary Dispute in Sudan s Abyei Region United States Institute of Peace October 2005 accessed 3 January 2023 Why Abyei Matters oxfordjournals org 2007 JAMES Prof Wendy Rosalind Mrs D H Johnson Who s Who 2017 Oxford University Press November 2016 Retrieved 4 February 2017 External links edit SUDAN Interview with Douglas Johnson expert on the Abyei Boundary Commission IRIN 29 May 2006 Douglas Johnson Sudan s Civil Wars hosted by Google Video distributed by understandingsudan org 2006 Retrieved from https en 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